First off - recent returnee here. I went through a brief period of shock upon realizing Flaming Durtles died, then found Smouldering and thanked all heavens! Thank you so much!
2 minor questions I couldn’t solve yet:
Can I modify either the position of the status upgrade notifications or the length of it showing when a kanji levels up? I’m still at the part of the program where I can breeze through many kanji and I have to wait for the status upgrade notification to disappear before doing the next one. I do like having some sort of visual feedback on it, though.
Can I somehow set it to still review burned items (should I ever make it that far)?
Thanks so much for any advice and keeping this alive, it’s an absolutely invaluable tool and makes my life so much better!
I don’t think the size of the toast can be adjusted. Maybe by increasing the font size of the main text (the item being quizzed), it can be made big enough to avoid being covered by the toast. Though in my experience, tweaking the font sizes can break the UI. (Esthetically, not to the point of being unusable.)
I think this is a no, too. You can use self study, and only select burned items, but that won’t keep track of the progress. You might find some ideas in this thread.
I’m encountering an issue where the app crashed/freezes if I try to play an audio file that isn’t downloaded yet. Is there a way to fix this (other than downloading the audio file) or is the nothing I can do on the user end? I’m on a S22+. I thought that of I tried to play an unavailable audio file or would just not play the file and not freeze.
Thank you so much for this, it definitely was useful! I was having the same problem and feared WaniKani was down for whatever reason.
Doing the same steps fixed it for me too!
P.S: Thank you so much for the app, Joeni! <3 It’s great and allows me to keep studying in my Android. Loved that “the fire hasn’t burnt out” and the naming homage!
P.P.S.: Solution still works in Feb. 2026, in case anyone else needs it!
How are you planning to deal with this google issue? Since it’s a problem that affects all apps, l thought about making a post in a general forum, but to be honest, your app is what I’m worried about the most at this moment, so I’ll just start asking here.
I haven’t used anything stock Android in almost a decade. So this won’t change anything for me - but I’m not the application developer. At this point I mainline an iphone and two ipads, and keep an old LineageOS phone around for this app and nothing else.
Deleted the diatribe but suffice to say Google drove me out with their antagonistic behavior back in about 2016 or 2017 and going back to Apple was not a decision I was super happy to make. But this is a great example of why.
I’m ashamed to say this is the first I’m hearing about this.
(I’ve actually always been an iOS/macOS person and SD is the only engagement I have in the Android space, so I’m not great at keeping up with news)
Google’s moral/ethical stance aside, I don’t believe this change will cause any issues for the app going forward. It’s registered against my already paid-up and fully verified developer account, so will remain available on the store.
As an open source application, the unsigned development builds will remain on Github and as well as this the app is available on the F-Droid repository as well.
An aside on walled-garden platforms..
As an aforementioned user of the Apple ecosystem, where this walled-garden approach has been the standard for nearly as long as app stores have been a thing - I understand the backlash to Google’s decision, but I also understand why that’s the direction of their travel.
It’s annoying for anyone who wants to just make and share stuff, or who doesn’t want to link their personal information to their apps, but from a cost perspective $25 for a perpetual right to publish is pretty reasonable (Apple charge $99/year) and from a security and governance perspective (I work as a senior dev in the education sector, so am very used to everything being by the book) identity based accountability for what you produce isn’t the worst thing in the world.
This is probably a controversial view in some development spaces, but I feel like with the rise of apps that turn out to be using your phones processor to mine crypto, or that can be used to create inappropriate AI images of real people, or that spread misinformation, etc., being able to have that verification of developer identity isn’t the worst thing in the world.
SD operates in the open-source space, where anybody who cares to can check the code for anything nefarious, but that’s not the case for all Android apps in the wild.
